Critical
Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass
Type: advisorySources: OSV
ORY Oathkeeper is an Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authorizes HTTP requests based on sets of Access Rules. Versions prior to 26.2.0 are vulnerable to an authorization bypass via HTTP path traversal. An attacker can craft a URL containing path traversal sequences (e.g. `/public/../admin/secrets`) that resolves to a protected path after normalization, but is matched against a permissive rule because the raw, un-normalized path is used during rule evaluation. Version 26.2.0 contains a patch.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2026-33494
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 03:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 26 Mar 2026, 17:23 UTC
ORY Oathkeeper is an Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authorizes HTTP requests based on sets of Access Rules. Versions prior to 26.2.0 are vulnerable to an authorization bypass via HTTP path traversal. An attacker can craft a URL containing path traversal sequences (e.g. `/public/../admin/secrets`) that resolves to a protected path after normalization, but is matched against a permissive rule because the raw, un-normalized path is used during rule evaluation. Version 26.2.0 contains a patch.
osv:CVE-2026-33494
Complete source record
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